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How Pinterest hires

Truth index
B 75/100
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
100%
Reposted roles
0%

Pinterest scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 11 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 100% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed

Overview

Pinterest is a visual discovery and social platform where users save and share images and ideas, headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Pinterest over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
80
Postings analysed
54
Stack modernity
81/100AI adopter
Languages
Python43%
SQL35%
C++13%
Java13%
Frameworks & libraries
Hadoop11%
Flink9%
PyTorch7%
TensorFlow7%
Databases
Trino4%
Apache Iceberg2%
Presto2%
Cloud & platforms
Kubernetes9%
Spark9%
AWS7%
Tableau6%
AI & ML
LLM24%
ChatGPT2%
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Full Pinterest tech stack 80 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$288k
Typical range
$96k – $500k
Open positions
70
65 Jobs
Junior 7.7%
Middle 6.2%
Senior 40%
Staff 38.5%
Principal 4.6%
Architect 3.1%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Junior 5 $267k $174k – $286k
Middle 4 $162k $96k – $235k
Senior 26 $270k $133k – $469k
Staff 25 $339k $182k – $429k
Principal 3 $450k $433k – $500k
Architect 2 $460k $450k – $471k
Highest paying role Principal Engineer (Big Data Platform) $500k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Pinterest By role, level and city, against the market · 70 jobs with pay

Growth

Hiring Momentum
52/100
Stable
Open positions
85
1 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
6 days
faster than 77% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~3 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Sales
17% ▲
Marketing
14% ▲
Backend
13% ▲
Product
13% ▼
AI/ML
9%
Data Science
9% ▼
Actively hiring for Backend (+8 in 30 days)

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
11
Hiring now
11
Countries
5
Busiest office
San Francisco
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San Francisco United States
Regional office
50 open roles 44 posted in 90 days 54% engineering 62% remote $319k Avg Salary
hires for Data Science, AI/ML, Backend
seen since May 2026 job postings
New York United States
Sales office
14 open roles 14 posted in 90 days 36% remote $260k Avg Salary
hires for Marketing, Sales, Product
seen since Aug 2026 job postings
Palo Alto United States
Regional office
13 open roles 13 posted in 90 days 62% engineering 23% remote $374k Avg Salary
hires for AI/ML, Backend, Product
seen since Jul 2026 job postings
Seattle United States
Engineering / R&D
11 open roles 10 posted in 90 days 73% engineering 9% remote $345k Avg Salary
hires for AI/ML, Data Science, Backend
seen since Jun 2026
Toronto Canada
Engineering / R&D
7 open roles 5 posted in 90 days 86% engineering 14% remote
hires for Mobile, AI/ML, Data Science
seen since Jun 2026 job postings
Chicago United States
Sales office
5 open roles 4 posted in 90 days $169k Avg Salary
hires for Marketing, Sales
seen since May 2026 job postings
Dublin Ireland
Regional office
5 open roles 5 posted in 90 days 20% engineering $131k Avg Salary
hires for Marketing, Backend, Finance
seen since Sep 2026 job postings
London United Kingdom
Sales office
3 open roles 4 posted in 90 days
hires for Sales
seen since Aug 2026 job postings
Los Angeles United States
2 open roles 2 posted in 90 days $222k Avg Salary
hires for Marketing
seen since Aug 2026
Berlin Germany
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days $182k Avg Salary
hires for Sales
seen since Oct 2026 job postings
Atlanta United States
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days $255k Avg Salary
hires for Marketing
seen since Aug 2026

Jobs

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